Re: Installing Leopard on < 867Mhz G4?

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:00:25 -0500, Mr. Strat wrote
(in article <100120081800258664%rag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

In article <MrNoSpam-0B3191.10545711012008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dale Stanbrough <MrNoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There are often problems with software that remain unfixed - you need to
wait for the next major version of the OS for a correction.

A good example is the pre-Leopard behaviour of the Finder when a mounted
volume disappeared - you had to wait for too long for the Finder to
become responsive again.

It's possible that there were other (undiagnosed) bugs that were lurking
in the system that would be corrected by an update to the OS.

As to where I learnt about computers - initially at Uni, then through my
successive jobs.

Putting a newer operating system on top of a malfunctioning one will
not fix problems.

Errm... this is not so. Putting OS X 10.2 on top of OS X 10.0 or OS X 10.1
fixes a _lot_ of problems. And you better believe that 10.0 was
malfunctioning. Out of the box...

In fact, reinstallation of software rarely fixes any
problems.

Errm... this is not so. If the problem is with the piece of software itself,
reinstalling will _often_ fix it. If the problem is with an associated file,
reinstalling will _sometimes_ fix it without other changes, but will
sometimes require the deletion of that associated file. The classic example
of how reinstallation of software _will_ fix a problem is how reinstalling,
from the original disc, fonts will fix many font problems. On several
occasions I've encountered bad fonts which I have fixed in exactly that way.
Furthermore, whenever you clear caches (any caches) or preferences what
you're doing is, so far as the system is concerned, reinstalling. You just
put your install of whatever it was made that cache (or pref) back to zero.
If you had a corrupt cache/pref, the problem will be gone. (And so will
anything else that was in that cache or pref...)

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